Read this (pdf). So the UC system has been screaming - they are totally cutting budgets, people, everything... And NPG has decided to hike their subscription renewal prices by 400%. So if the offer doesn't change, UC's going to fight back, and it will hurt. Boy, will it hurt.
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A two year old kid runs about, trips and crashes to the floor. She is in pain and starts crying. The adults console her saying, "Uh..oh, now, now, don't cry.. you hurt yourself.. come on..". As an adult, when you hurt yourself, the unwritten rule is: you should not compain.
I came across this interesting poll of the NJ Senate race. It appears that just mentioning the Iraq War hurts Republicans, even popular ones:
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts thirty.
- Ernest Leroy Boyer
Kids, before we watch the video, I have to tell you: I just got a flu shot the other day and it did not hurt even a tiny little bit. That's because the needle is very small and your neurons .... that feel the pain ... are far apart. So, many times the shot does not hurt, sometimes it does.
I think they are right. When we are part of a big buying group, we get negotiated prices from all sorts of our suppliers. When the UC system is such a major contributor of material for which they then have to pay to access it in its curated, peer-reviewed, edited form in the NPG journals - well, they are quite correct to demand a negotiated price. I hope it has a good repercussion for us smaller contributor/buyers, as well. We don't subscribe to plenty of interesting smaller journals because of the costs of certain of the influential larger ones - and it's a bit of a vicious circle in the long run.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story on this issue called U. of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs:
http://tinyurl.com/3a8molc
h/t to Lisnews.com
We don't subscribe to plenty of interesting smaller journals because of the costs of certain of the influential larger ones - and it's a bit of a vicious circle in the long run.